{"id":104782,"date":"2025-12-30T10:34:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104782\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T10:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:34:32","slug":"search-for-81-year-old-in-north-texas-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104782\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for 81-year-old in North Texas \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are searching for an 81-year-old man diagnosed with a cognitive impairment who was last seen in North Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The Abilene Police Department said Earnest Brooks, a white male, was last seen around 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 29 near Midway Road and Belt Line Road in Addison. <\/p>\n<p>Abilene Police said the man&#8217;s disappearance is believed to pose a credible threat to his health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-alert-earnest-brooks.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Earnest Brooks\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tNBC 5 News<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tNBC 5 News<\/p>\n<p>Earnest Brooks<\/p>\n<p>Brooks was last seen wearing a white ball cap, green long-sleeve button-down shirt, blue jeans, and brown dress shoes, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe Brooks may be traveling in a blue 2014 Ford F-150 bearing Texas license plate 7SBFN.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the Abilene Police Department at 325-673-8331.<\/p>\n<p>TEXAS STATEWIDE ALERT PROGRAMS<\/p>\n<p>Eight kinds of alerts can be issued for missing or endangered people in Texas. Below are links to articles with more information about each type of alert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for an 81-year-old man diagnosed with a cognitive impairment who was last seen in North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32690,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-104782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-silver-alert","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-headlines","11":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}